News from MadisonJournalTODAY - Topics from May, 2009

If you work for a department head in the Madison County government — and you get canned — then you can appeal the decision. But is that a good thing, or is it simply prolonging the inevitable at taxpayer expense? The county personnel policy is a lengthy and nuanced document that opens up post-termination possibilities for some county ...
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Hull leaders have invited city council candidates Randell King and Brandon Fortson to be recognized at the city’s spring festival Saturday as a long-awaited June 16 special election nears. “We would love to have them be recognized so that people can see that, hey, Hull is really beginning to have interest in the political field,” Mayor ...
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A Maysville teen was arrested in the early hours of Friday morning after leading deputies on a high-speed chase into Athens-Clarke County. Christy Renee Gibson, 17, 1068 Old Miller Road, Maysville, was charged with failure to obey a traffic control device, driving with a learners permit (without license), improper turn or U-turn, reckless ...
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The state Department of Family and Children Services has blocked a locally-funded stipend proposed by the Madison County DFCS board. But the local board isn’t giving up just yet. It has called a meeting today (Thursday) at 5 p.m. to discuss rewording the stipend for its director and social services workers in hopes of giving those employees a ...
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It is amazing how often the media gets things wrong. It was a newspaper that labeled the War for Southern Independence a “Civil” war, which was clearly wrong. Now they are proclaiming that General Motors is closing thousands of dealerships and will cause hundreds of thousands of people to lose their jobs. All of these dealerships are owned ...
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Dear Editor: Our churches are no longer churches anymore. They’re more like a dance hall or a bar. We’ve got dancing in our churches, rap music. What else will the devil move in? I don’t believe the church members really realize what they are doing. We don’t stand up for God anymore. We’d rather do as they do on TV. When they took ...
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Starting July 20, all student registration in Madison County will now go through the central office — not the school campuses. The school system has switched student information systems — scraping SASSY in favor of Infinite Campus — prompting the registration change. “Like any change, it’s going to be more difficult and a bit more ...
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Starting July 20, all student registration in Madison County will go through the central office — not the school campuses. The school system has switched student information systems — scraping SASSY in favor of Infinite Campus — prompting the registration change. “Like any change, it’s going to be more difficult and a bit more work in ...
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The Georgia Department of Human Resources (DHR), Division of Public Health (DPH) is encouraging Madison County residents to complete a community environmental health survey. The purpose of the survey is to collect community health concerns about underground natural gas and petroleum pipelines within the county. Members of a community advocacy ...
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One person was injured in a two vehicle head-on collision about 3 p.m. Friday afternoon on Hwy. 106 just north of Ila near Hwy. 174. David Moon, Ila, was headed north when, according to reports at the scene, a woman in a beige sedan heading south, crossed the centerline and struck the left front of Moon's pick up head on. The woman, whose ...
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